The story of a plucky, optimistic newsboy, Michael O’Halloran, who has been orphaned from a young age and asks nothing of the world but to “Be Square!” This is a warm and joyous story of how Michael makes life sunnier for those around him, bringing joy to all who know him.
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This Utah Jazz homer talks about what he saw during the Jazz games, what went wrong and what went right. I'll also discuss my thoughts on transactions the Jazz performed, or what they could do in the future.
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Leading students on wilderness adventures make for some of the best stories. Join former National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) instructor and author of TEAMS ON THE EDGE Shawn Stratton each week as he interviews fellow outdoor educators from NOLS, Outward Bound, and other organizations to hear their most entertaining stories from leading expeditions with students around the world. Take a listen to these professional adventurers as they entertain you with stories of misadventures, wildlif ...
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Brad Grimmett is a Steadicam Operator. On Walking Backwards he talks to other Steadicam Operators and crew members about the business of film and television. Mostly it's just drinking beer and telling stories though, which is much more fun.
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A conversation with Camera/Steadicam Operator Andrew McClymont.By Walking Backwards
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17 Initiations in an Ancient and Honourable Brotherhood
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A conversation with Camera Operator Lucas 'LT' Tomoana.By Walking Backwards
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A conversation with Steadicam Operator Andrew 'AJ' Johnson.By Walking Backwards
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A conversation with James Puli. We drank bourbon in front of a classroom full of kids while talking about the business in Melbourne Australia.By Walking Backwards
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James "KG" Kagambi: NOLS - Mt. Everest in Detail
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Today our guest is James "KG" Kagambi, Senior NOLS Instructor and the owner of KG Mountain Expeditions. He joined NOLS as a field instructor in 1987. KG has worked many curses types over the years but regularly works in NOLS mountaineering programs in Patagonia, Alaska, East Africa, and India. KG is not only a senior NOLS instructor; he is the most…
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(Rewind) Rachel James: NOLS - Storms from Patagonia to Alaska
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Rachel James was born and raised in Palmer, Alaska. She started working at the NOLS Alaska branch at the age of 15, cleaning toilets and landscaping; this was also when she started ice climbing. Rachel took a NOLS Alaska Mountaineering course at 16 and started working as a mountaineering instructor after taking the first-ever NOLS Alaska Instructor…
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Jeff Rose: Outward Bound - Losing A Co-instructor, Losing a Student and Getting Lost
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Jeff Rose has worked as an outdoor educator for over two decades, including 19 seasons with Outward Bound. Besides Outward Bound, Jeff has worked for numerous colleges and universities, including the University of Utah, Davidson College, San Diego State University, UC San Diego, and Indiana University. He also worked for Adventures Cross Country an…
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Steve Smith: Outward Bound - Value of a Near Miss
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Steve Smith has worked in the outdoor industry for over thirty years, in the field, in the office, in the board room, and in national leadership roles, specializing in program leadership, risk management, and staff training. As a teen, he took a NOLS semester course in 1991 and for Outward Bound from 1998 through to today. Since 2008 he has run a r…
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Travis Holmes: NOLS - Alaska Canoe Epic, A Love Story and Crocodile Bites Canoe Paddle
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Travis Holmes was born in grew up in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He lived most of his life in Alberta, B.C. and the Yukon; however, for the past 15 years, he has been living in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, with his wife, ten and 8-year-old kids. Travis worked in outdoor education for much of the 1990s and 2000s. His work lifeguarding in swimming poo…
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Mike Clelland: NOLS - One Epic Alaska Mountaineering Course!
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As a young adult, Mike lived in New York City from 1981 to 1991, working as a freelance illustrator. During that time, he spent one winter season as a ski bum in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, in 1986 and couldn’t get it out of his system. So Mike moved west permanently in 1991, eventually settling in Driggs, Idaho, where he spent a quarter of a century. H…
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Steve Whitney (part 2): NOLS - Instructor Disagreement, Big Falls, and Grizzly Bears
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Steve grew up in Maine & New Hampshire and was an outdoor recreation major at Plymouth State College. He completed a NOLS student semester in 1993, and the rest is history. He has been an outdoor educator professionally since 1994 for many organizations, including Plymouth State College, Barnstead Elementary School, Tioga County Community Wildernes…
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Steve Whitney (part 1): Cameron Diaz Comes to NOLS and Other Wild Stories
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Steve grew up in Maine & New Hampshire and was an outdoor recreation major at Plymouth State College. He completed a NOLS student semester in 1993, and the rest is history. He has been an outdoor educator professionally since 1994 for many organizations, including Plymouth State College, Barnstead Elementary School, Tioga County Community Wildernes…
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Andrew Cusack (with David Perry): NOLS - $30,000 Blister in the Yukon
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Andrew Cusack was born and raised in Sudbury, ON, and studied Outdoor Recreation and Natural Science at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, ON. He spent more than ten years working in outdoor education for organizations across Asia and North America, including NOLS Project DEAR, Asia Pacific Adventure, Hong Kong International School, Hong Kong Univ…
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Megan McGinty: Outward Bound, NOLS - Students Engulfed In A Forest Fire
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Megan is currently living in Fairbanks, Alaska, on the lands of the Upper Tanana people, finishing up a Post Doctorate contract with the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Megan has had an extensive career working in outdoor education. In 1992 she began the first of her eight years working for the North Carolina Outward Bound and later the Pacific Cre…
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Brady Robinson and Ed Roberson: NOLS - Instructor & Student Share Different Perspectives on the Same Story
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Brady Robinson Brady began working in outdoor education in the mid-'90s at a boy's camp in the Poconos of Pennsylvania. He went on to work with Outward Bound for over a decade, spent some time guiding, and instructed with NOLS for a few years. After leaving fieldwork, he has primarily worked in conservation as the Executive Director of the Access F…
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Brendan Madden: NOLS, Outward Bound - Mental Health Challenges for Students and Instructors
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Brendan Madden is from Dublin, Ireland and has lived in Canada since I was 12. He is currently the head of Programs and Interim Director of a new Training Academy for Outdoor Professionals at Outward Bound Canada. He has been active in the expedition-based adventure education field for over 25 years, mainly as a program director and senior instruct…
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Henry Wood: Outward Bound & NOLS - Rockfall in the North Cascade Mountains
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Henry Wood grew up in Atlanta but has lived in Boulder, CO, since 2005. He studied Philosophy and English literature at Georgia State University before embarking on a 10-year career in outdoor education, most notable with Outward Bound and the NOLS. While working in outdoor education, Henry led backpacking, mountaineering, canyoneering, and climbin…
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In this short "in-between" episode, Shawn shares a few stories from former Outward Bound and NOLS Instructor and, most recently, stroke survivor Geoff Kooy, who had emailed to the show.
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Paul Koubek: NOLS - Planning to Run Out Of Food
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Paul's career in outdoor leadership began in 1995 when he began working with adjudicated youth in the desert of southern Utah. He started working with Outward Bound in 1998 and moved up to work with the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) in 2000. With NOLS, he ultimately worked 265 field weeks as a mountaineering, rock climbing and sailing C…
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Tim Felt: NOLS - Patagonia Mountaineering or Advanced River Crossing
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Tim Felt grew up in the suburban wilds of Northern California. His career in outdoor education started with him working in boarding schools 1991-94 running outdoor programs and teaching biology in New Hampshire and Arizona. He took a NOLS Instructors Course in 1993 and started work in the field immediately. For the next decade, Tim went on lead bac…
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Rachel James: NOLS - Storms from Patagonia to Alaska
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Rachel James Rachel James was born and raised in Palmer, Alaska. She started working at the NOLS Alaska branch at the age of 15, cleaning toilets and landscaping; this was also when she started ice climbing. Rachel took a NOLS Alaska Mountaineering course at 16 and started working as a mountaineering instructor after taking the first-ever NOLS Alas…
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Curtis Tronolone (part 2): NOLS - Losing Control of the Student Group
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For the second podcast in a row, we have Curtis Tronolone on the show to share some more wild stories from the field. Before we review Curtis's bio we wanted to share a recent podcast review. Podcast Review Makes me homesick for my recent expedition life! Just an incredible chance to get into the field from afar. I’m loving this podcast- it made me…
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Curtis Tronolone: NOLS - Broken Leg Resilience with the Naval Academy
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Curtis Tronolone, grew up in rural upstate New York, along the Erie canal, nestled between the small towns of Churchville, Spencerport, and Brockport. He began his love of outdoor pursuits as a kid, boating and hiking with his family, and spending his summers riding horses at New York summer camps before undertaking a NOLS mountaineering course as …
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(Rewind) David Yacubian: NOLS - Doing CPR When Teaching CPR
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David Yacubian has been working in Outdoor Education for more than 20 years and has over 15 years of risk management and emergency preparedness experience. He has worked with NOLS as an instructor and advisor on four different continents around the globe. Dave has also run over 100 NOLS Wilderness Medicine courses in the San Francisco Bay Area thro…
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Trevor Deighton: NOLS - Mystery Bullet and Practical Jokes
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Our guest this week, Trevor Deighton, was born and raised in the Washington DC area. He currently lives in Victor, Idaho and teaches 8th-grade Physical Science at the Jackson Hole Middle School. Trevor is a passionate backcountry skier and has been teaching and guiding in the backcountry for over 30 years on all seven continents. He has worked for …
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Jared Spaulding: NOLS - Too Much Cheese and Falling Trees
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Our guest today Jared Spaulding has worked in the outdoor education industry since 1999. He has worked for NOLS for over 20 years as a field instructor and now mixes his time between instructing and an administrative program supervisor role at the Rocky Mountain branch. Jared has instructed courses in Wyoming, Utah, Alaska, the Pacific Northwest, C…
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Anjeanette LeMay: Outward Bound - Adventures From South Africa to the Arctic!
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Anjeanette LeMay is a mother and educator living close to the forest, lakes and ocean of Mi'kmaki (Nova Scotia). Raised in Southern Ontario, AJ has relished the opportunity to work in outdoor and experiential education for 25 years throughout Canada, South Africa and the United States. Over this time, she has worked for outdoor education programs S…
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Moose Mutlow: North Carolina Outward Bound and Beyond!
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Moose Mutow has over 30 years of traditional and alternative education experience around the globe. He has course directed 58-day Outward Bound instructor trainings in Appalachia, been a deputy headmaster in the Kalahari Desert, managed a beach concession on the Mediterranean, slogged through Australian rain forests with middle school students, jug…
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(Rewind) Marc Randolph: NOLS - Netflix Founder On Leadership Lessons Learned in the Field
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(This week we share a REWIND of a popular episode with Marc Randolph. Check out this new video about Marc's time working for NOLS - https://bit.ly/3nxK9uL) #TheTrailToSuccess Our guest is a former NOLS Instructor and Chair of the NOLS Board of Trustees, but he is best known as the co-founder and first CEO of Netflix, Marc Randolph. His incredibly s…
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Shawn Stratton (with Shari Leach) NOLS: Indian Military Evacuation From the Himalayas
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This week on the Hot Drinks podcast Shari Leach interviews me about an epic I experienced while leading a NOLS course in the Himalayas of India. Shawn is an international leadership consultant, professional speaker, bestselling author, podcast host, Ironman and Ultramarathon competitor. Shawn has a bachelor’s degree in Experiential Education and a …
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